I'm playing around with regtest and wanted to generate a bech32 address. My Bitcoin Core version is 0.18.0.
I ran getnewaddress "" bech32
and got an address that began with bcrt
, like this one : bcrt1qs758ursh4q9z627kt3pp5yysm78ddny6txaqgw
.
I'm a bit surprised, because I was thinking that testnet bech32 addresses were different, and indeed I checked this page that says it should begin with tb1...
I tried to send some tbtc to this address with Electrum and a faucet, none worked, they indeed both say address is invalid.
So what am I missing here?